Questioning theoretical primitives in linguistic inquiry : papers in honor of Ricardo Otheguy
edited by Naomi L. Shin, Daniel Erker
Bok · Engelsk · 2018
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| Omfang | vi, 293 sider : figurer
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| Opplysninger | First principles in linguistic inquiry / Daniel Erker and Naomi Shin -- Categories of grammar and categories of speech: when the quest for symmetry meets inherent variability / Shana Poplack -- Letter from Ricardo Otheguy to Shana Poplack -- Variable grammars: competence as a statistical abstraction from performance constructing theories from data / Gregory R. Guy -- Discovering structure: person and accessibility / Catherine Travis and Rena Torres Cacoullos -- The justification of grammatical categories / Wallis Reid -- Spooky grammatical effects / Joseph Davis -- Ditransitives and the English system of degree of control: a Columbia School analysis / Nancy Stern -- Latinus and linguistics: complaints, conflicts, and contradictions: the anthro-political linguistics solution / Ana Celia Zentella -- Reviving the unicorn: linguistic reconsiderations for the existence of Spanglish / Rachel Varra -- Bilingual acquisition: difference or incompleteness? / Carmen Silva-Corvalssn -- An incomplete disquisition against "incomplete acquisition": with particular reference to changes in the distribution of the subjunctive in Spanish / Marcel den Dikken.. - "Across the world, professional linguistic inquiry is in full bloom, largely as result of pioneering thinkers who helped rapidly modernize the study of human language in the last century. As the field continues to move forward, further solidifying its position as a conduit of insight into the human condition, it is essential to take stock of the theoretical primitives that have given linguistics its intellectual foundation. This volume does precisely that, inspecting the load-bearing components of the edifice upon which contemporary linguistics has been constructed"--
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| ISBN | 9789027201676
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